Sarah Palin recorded a message welcoming the secessionists to their 2008 party convention, and

Joe Vogler, founder of the secessionist Alaska Independence Party, stated in the "Introduction" section of the party's official website, "I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions," and

If we apply Occam's Razor and assume that Sarah Palin understood the words leaving her own mouth, then

The "Founding Fathers" of the 1950's to which Sarah Palin was referring were the founders of sovereign and independent nation of Alaska.